Word: soaps
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Executive director Bharat P. Das ’07 pronounced, “We are a well oiled soap opera machine,” opening the meeting of writers and directors for the Harvard soap opera Ivory Towers last Tuesday evening. According to the team of some 50 cast and crew members who work on the soap between classes, everything this semester will be bigger, better, and more professional looking...
...behind a computer screen calls out, “it can only get better from here,” and cites a previous discussion he had with renowned writer Frank McCourt concerning the show as evidence that consciousness of the Ivory Towers show is rising. The purely student run soap opera “pokes fun at Harvard as an institution” and is complete with typical clichéd student characters like, as Pepi says, “the ambitious Upper East side” socialite, “the European girl,” whom Pepi herself...
...soap opera saga that is the Scott Peterson case has finally reached its last leg. The snarky, nefarious California salesman is going to fry—or at least remain locked up for the rest of eternity. While the details of this case are undoubtedly serious and sobering, the mind-boggling amount of media coverage it has garnered is grossly out of proportion with its national importance. In fact, the media circus surrounding this case is downright sickening...
While adults like Evalyn Hernandez go missing every day, Greta Van Susteren and her media cohorts spend hours expounding on why the jury foreman at Scott Peterson’s trial was dismissed. Although this soap-opera escapism may boost ratings, it is a slap in the face to serious journalism...
...cheating on her. It sounds like the stuff of a TV after-school special, except for two things. They don't have after-school specials anymore. And this is part of a play, Laurie Brooks' Wrestling Season, so energetically stylized that it defuses any hint of preachiness or soap opera. The action takes place on a gym floor, where a referee periodically whistles scenes to a halt with calls like "illegal hold" or "unsportsmanlike conduct." When not in scenes, the class- mates turn into a chorus, chanting lines ("You think you know me, but you don't") that echo...